Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
“Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
Isaiah 6:8
"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
James 1:22-24,27
As believers, we are called to hear, understand, and then do.
You may be thinking: "I'm only one person, what can I do?"
The answer: Much more than you can imagine!
Hearing generally gives way to doing. Instruction and direction comes first, and then a course of action followed by action. Things are accomplished by doing, not by hearing alone.
Jesus said, " Greater things than these shall you...do... and He wasn't referring to lunch after church.
There is an old adage, "A picture is worth a thousand words."
Does not something as simple as a random act of kindness minister, speaking volumes, to a broken spirit?
There are many word pictures, metaphors in the Bible referring to those who are called (that's all of us by the way) to be actively involved: "members of the body", soldiers, warriors, ministers ... It means setting aside activities that are all about ourselves, forsaking that comfort zone, and doing unto the Lord (especially to the least of them) sowing our precious time carefully and consistently.
The only thing that we are not called to do is - nothing .
Let me say that again: The only thing that we are not called to do is nothing.
Beloved, be doers of the Word. Today, tomorrow, everyday.
Let's work together, while there is daylight.
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